The Sun. — London, England, 1836-07-11 00:00:00

1 111 °,~ e nda'.it in the act of wrenching a knocker from a house in Albemarle -street, and he went up and took him into cus tody. Three knockers from different doors were found to have been taken off within a very short space of time, and no doubt existed that they had been separated from the doors by the defendant. Mr. CHAMBERS with evident surprise asked the defen dant who he was, and how he got his living ?—Thesdefen dant, with great nonchalance, said he was a gentleman. Mr. CHAMBERS said had the circumstances occurred to a poor man, who could not produce a satisfactory character, be would certainly have been sent to prison for robbery. The mischievous practice of breaking off knockers and de stroying the ornaments of doors had become very prevalent of late, and the police got undeserved blame for what it was impossible they could prevent. Mr. Chambers then in flicted a fine of .55., and, after a suitable caution, liberated the " honourable" defendant. .) 4 • . 5.• ~ ti NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JULY 9.—On Monday last the Hon. Sir Charles, Paget, G.C.H., hoisted his flag, red at the mizen on board his Majesty's ship, Bellerophon, Captain Samuel Jackson, C.ll, and appointed George Thorne, Esq., to act as his Secretary. The Vanguard, 84, Captain Hon. D. P. Bouverie, was paid advance on Monday, and sailed on the following day to cruise in the Channel, with her constructor, (Sir W. Sy monds) on board. The Asia, 84, Captain Fisher, arrived on Tuesday from Plymouth, and was placal under the command of Sir C. Paget. The Athol troop-ship, having disembarked the depot companies of the 99th regiment at Plymouth, returned to Spithead on Thursday with the reserve companies of the 98th regiment (which have taken up their quarters in this garrison) yesterday disembarked the 61st depot, and pro ceeded to Cork, whence she will return with the 43d depot to Plymouth. It is due to the discipline of the 61st regi ment that it should be stated that during the whole time they have been in this garrison not a single complaint has been made against either officers or men. _ The Partridge, tender to the flag-ship at Plymouth, ar rived to-day from Plymouth, with seamen for the Bellero phon and Pembroke. • The Pluto steam-vessel will call in here from the East ward. on her way to the North Coast of Spai n . The Cracker tender, arrived yesterday from cruising off Brighton, and will return again for the protection of the Fisheries. The General Evans cutter arrived on Wednesday from San Sebastian, which place she left on the 27th ult. She brought 46 men from the Legion, who have been sick, with 14 women and six children. Colonel Considine, Major Keevill, Captains Rogers, Cornwall, Irwin, Hon. Lieut. Curzon, Ensign Medlicott, and Mrs. Col. M'Cabe, were passengers. She brings no news, but an attack on the part of the Carlists was hourly expected. The Pearl, Tweed, Royalist, Viper, Salamander, and Plicenix were at San Sebastian ; every ship had landed her marines, and two Lieutenants of the Tweed were posted in a convent, in a strong position. Order; have been received this week, at the Head quarters of this division of Royal Marines, to add a serjeant to each recruiting party, with directions to all officers em ployed on such service to use_every effort to complete the strength of this highly effective and distinguished corps. Captain Ballinghall, of this division, is ordered to Lewes on that duty. The Hercules, 74, Captain Berkelay, is hourly expected at Spithead. The Zebra, 18, was at Hobart Town on the 4th March ; Favourite, 18, at Constantinople, June 7 ; Vestal, 26, Gan net, 18, at Barbadoes, May 22 ; Wasp, 18, at Jamaica, May 14; Racehorse, 18, St. Kitts, May 16 ; Dee, steamer, left Jamaica for St. Thomas's May 9. The Tartarus, steamer, is ordered to Alexandria, for the purpose of bringing home an Indian mail, via the Red Sea, with the least possible delsy. The Barretti Junior, Saunders, and Mount Stewart El.- phinstone, Fuller, sailed on Monday for Madras and Bengal ; the former ship carries out four beautiful thorough-bred mares and a pack of hounds. , By the Zenobia, which passed on Wednesday from Cal cutta, we hear that the Jupiter, 38, Hon. Capt. Grey, got on shore on the James and Mary Shoal, near Diamond Harbour, in going up to Calcutta, but that by the assist ance of three steamers, which had her in tow at the time, she was got off. The Barnard, from Sierra Leone, arrived to-day, laden with timber. Governor Campbell was well, but was en gaged up the river in settling a native dispute. Navigators in the Channel should be aware that a re volving light was exhibited on the Start Point on the Ist inst., showing a brilliant flash every minute ; in addition to which a stationary light is also displayed there for the usc of vessels going out of or into Torbay. The Portland Light is no longer a revolving. one, but both the high and low lights.on that point are fixed lights. . At Spithead--,Bellerophon (flag-ship), Asia, Pembroke, Cornwallis. In Harbour—Britannia, Excellent, Royal George, Ma dag Iscar, Buffalo, Beacon, Partridge, Cracker (tender), Diligence (naval transport). A Codrt-martial is ordered to assemble next week, on hoard the Britannia -ward-snip, at Portsmouth, to try Mr. Robert Rodgers, late master of his Majesty's sloop Rover, for breaches of the 2d and 8f:Id articles of war. The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered that jaws on the topsail-yards of his Majesty's ships shall be abolished in the Navy, owing, to their injuring the topmasts. (From the Devonport Chronicle.) Letters have been received from the Fair Rosamond, Lieut. Rose, commander, dated Princes Island, April 6. In the month oF February, the Fair Rosamond took a slaver, having 216 slaves on board. This prize was sent to Sierra Leone, and shortly after the Fair Rosamond fell in with and took two other slave vessels without,slaves, but having valuaLle cargoes on board. Remaining in Hamoaze.—Royal Adelaide, - Imogene, Magpie, Plover packet, and Falmouth lighter. The Admiralty have extendej the age of admission to Lieutenants of the Navy, who may be appointed Chief Officers in the Coast Guard Service to 50. The following ships on foreign stations are ordered home to be paid off :—Beagle, 10 ; Columbia steamer ; Comus, 18 ; Griffon, 3 ; H;vacinth, 18 ; Jupiter, 38 ; Savage, 10 ; Vestal, 26. ------ The Duke of Somerset is about to be married to one of the sisters of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart. W e perceive from the Dublin papers that Mr. Ransford, the celebrated vocalist, has just completed his en gagement at the Theatre Royal, Dublin ; and has returned to his residence at 22, Palace kw Road, Lambeth. Mr. Rans ford, we are happy to say, is none the worse for his trip, but, on the contrary, he is prepared to resume his professional dutie . :, with fresh spirit. DARINTLEY ; OR, THE FIELD OF Tilt CLOTH OF GOLD. —The new volume of " The Standard Novels,' which has just appeared, contains the above celebrated produc tion. Th e L iterary Gazette, in reviewing this work, ob serves :—" We cannot imarrine a period better suited to the pen of the novelist than the commencement of Henry the Eight's reign — a time of wild adventure, yet of gradual civili zation—of fete and pageantry, of tilt and tournament, and when chivalry took its highest tone of honour and refinement; We congratulate Mr. James on his choice of subject, and still more on the manner in which it is treated. His work is an ani mated and gorgeous picture of the times." We are glad to see th;s very popular work perpetuated in Mr. Bentley's series of the Standard Novels and Romances. Scarce a talc of any celebrity but is comprised in this admirable collection, and the publisher has had the foresight to set such a price on each volume—which contains, by ,the bye, the materials of three—as to place it within the reach of all. When classical and highly-priced standard works are published in such at tractive forms and at so moderate a cost, assuredly there will scarcely be a house which will not have this cheap and elegant Library of Entertainment. MIDDLETON.—The silk weaving is in a miserable state, and many families have been without employment several weeks ; masters seem to be of opinion that a change for the better will take place in a few days. The hay harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood this week, grass is later by 21 days than it was last year. LUGGAGE EXTRAORDINARY._. The followi ng men:. was left in one of the Dover coaches by a lady who alighted at Rochester, on Monday last :—" 5 boxes, a baby, a basket, 2 umbrellas, a parasol"—all of which, it is needless to say, with the careful mother, arrived safely at their destination. The annals of the noble house of Berkeley are about to be illustrated by an historical romance now on the eve of publication, called " Berkeley Castle." This splendid place has been the scene of some of the most remarkable events in English history ;' and its traditions will be turned to account in the above work by a descendant of the family, which has possessed it for centuries, and whose name it bears. We allude to the Honourable Grantley Berkeley, M. P. DETERMINED SUICIDE. —On Saturday, an old man, aged 80 years, residing in the parish of Llandebic, Car marthenshire, put a period to his existence, under the fol lowing curious circumstances. Being wearied of life, he resolved to put an end to it by venesection, and having tied his head (as is generally done to person s a few minutes after death, in order to close the mouth), he opened a vein, and let the vital stream flow, until he sank into the deep sleep of death. He was found sitting in his chair quite lifeless. WATERING PLACES.—Askern is filling fast; a great many families have arrived there recently; and many are now domiciling there. The hot weather is also occasion ing Scarborough and Harrogate to be fuller of company. Many distinguished families are now residing at both places. REDcAR._This fashionable resort for sea-bathing receives a continued increase of families from all parts. The st eam - Packets from London, rail roads from different parts of Durham to Stockton, and the several coaches from Leeds, Ri pon, and York, all benefit from the growing fame of Redcar, and the excellence of the air and sands. WrialiaT T t4E OF THE FRENCH KING. COURT OF PEERS-FBIDir, JULY 8. The commencement of the proceedings in the Court of Peers against the prisoner, Alibeaud, charged with attempt ing to assassinate his Majesty, Louis Phillippe, King of the French, fixed for yesterday, was, as is already known to the British public, postponed to this day at 10 o'clock. While waiting for admission I had an opportunity of comparing present with former appearances on the occasion of State trials before the Court of Peers. The first of these was the trial of the ex-Ministers of Charles the Tenth, when it required eighty thousand National Guards to protect the accused against popular fury. The second was the celebrated Proces Monstre, which it was expected would have produced vast sensation, and to meet which im mense military precadtions were taken in the neighbour hood of the Palace, but which were fortunately super fluous. The third was the trial of Fieschi and his co-ac cused—the incidents of which are too fresh in the public recollection to require reference to, and when apathy was still more apparent than in the preceding case. To-day the perfect indifference of the public was manifest in the total absence of spectators, curious, interested or idlers ; and of military display half a dozen dismounted Gardes Munici paux (a cheval) were, it is true, at the principal entrance of the Palais du Luxembourg, but their sole task consisted of forming into two lines some score of persons (reporters for the Journals, and others furnished with tickets for the Court) in order that the carriageS of the Peers should en counter no obstacle. Shortly after half-past 10 o'clock the prisoner was intro duced in the custody of five municipal guards, two of whom held him under the arms, and led him to the box prepared for him. A soldier sat one at each side, the other three behind him. The prisoner walked to the place indicated with a firm step, but although perfectly erect in his carriage, with his eyes cast down. He is a young man of about five feet nine or ten inches in height. He is rather good-look ing. He affects a foppish style of dress, but was pale. He wore an olive frock coat, black waistcoat and cravat, and white trousers, made Cossack fashion. His advocate (M. Ledru) proceeded up to him. Alibaud rose and shook hands with his Counsel. The Peers entered immediately afterwards. PRESIDENT—Accused, what is your name ? The Prisoner—Alibaud Lewis. Your age ?—Twenty-six years. The place of your birth ?—Nismes. Your profession ?—Ex-Militaire. Q. Alibaud, was it not you who, on the 25th June last, at six in the evening, and near the gate of the Tuileries fired on the King ?—A. Yes, Sir. Q. Did you try the instrument before firing at the King? —A. Yes, in the place where M. Devisme is in the habit of trying his arms. Q. How was it loaded on the 25th ?—A. It had been loaded nearly a fortnight ; the charge was composed of 28 grains of powder and two balls. An usher showed Alibaud the poignard found on him, which he recognised. Q. What did you intend this instrument for ?—A. For myself ; it cost me five or six francs. Q. What do you wish to do? Did you not wish to arrive at the Republic by a general overthrow of every thing ?—A. Yes. I wished to do so. Q. How long is it since you formed this detestable pro ject ? A. (in an animated voice)—Ever since Philip I. es tablished the state of siege ; ever since Philip I. trod under foot all his promises and all our liberties ; ever since Philip I. caused our fellow-citizens to be swept away by grape shot in the streets of Paris and Lyons ; ever since the reign of Philip I. became a reign of blond—a reign of infamy. This was when and why fwished to kill him. The President—Why did you wish to kill the King? A.—Because I was convinced that I should thereby be come useful to the cause to which I had consecrated my life. Q. Did you never profess the opinion that when a King becaMe troublesome it was easy to get rid of him ?—A. I do not think I ever said so. I conceived my project at Barcelona. Q. Why did you leave that place ?—A. To kill the King. Q. On your return to Perpignan had you no connection with persons of your own opinions ?—A. I never belonged to any political societies. Q. Had you any accomplices?—A. I never mentioned my project to anybody ? Q. Did you not write at least four letters, in which you announced your project to Corbiere ? Were not all these letters addressed by you to Corbiere, under cover to Ar tus ?—A. Since Corbiere has confessed it, 1 must confess it also. Q. Why did you make this disclosure to Corbiere?—A. I wrote to him, but he never answered me. I wrote to him three or four letters. Q. Are there any other persons to whom you communi cated your project besides him ?—A. No, Sir ; only I wrott to him under cover to Artus. Q. Why did you employ this method of communicatin g with him ?—A. In order not to compromise Corbiere, I knew had already something to do with the trial of ti April prisoners. M. Leonce Fraysse, a commercial traveller, was the:: examined. ,Q, Did you know the prisoner ?—A. Yes, Sir, from I.i, infancy. We met again at Paris. He lodged at my hour, It was at that time that he gave me a box containing cane-guns, and kept one, telling me that he should pay fo: it. 1 took the others for him back to M. Devisme. Q. Did Alibaud never tell you of his project ?—A. No he always conducted himself well, and was esteemed by al, who knew hint. Q. Did he not, live with you 7—A. Yes, Sir, for two months. Q. When did Alibaud live with you?—A. About five months ago. I am glad of this opportunity of denying some calumnies that have been spread about against our mends on account of our living together. Alibaud, starting up, exclaimed, " Yes, Sir, I have been calumniated !" but the President desired him to remain quiet. Mr. Fraysse—Alibaud has been guilty of an error.— ( Murmurs.) President—Do you call such a crime an error ? M. Fraysse—An attempt, then, since you prefer the word.—(New murmurs.) The President-=Connected as you were with Alibaud, it is difficult to believe that you had no knowledge of his projects ?—A. If I had known them, he would not have carried them them into effect ; I should have hindered him. Q. Had you not some discussions of opinion with him ? —A. Yes, he had opinions a little more advanced than mine. Q. If there was only a little difference, yours must have gone rather far ?—A. There was a considerable dif ference. Q. Was not Alibaud a partisan of Robespierre ? A. He was of the opinions of St. Just, which I looked upon as those of blood. The Procureur-General—Alibaud, you declared that you constantly followed the King ?—A. It is only since I left BatiAas that I followed the King like his own shadow. Q. Did you always take your cane-gun ?—A. When I knew that the King was going out I took it ; otherwise I left it in my portmanteau. I beg the President to ask M. Fraysse whether I did not make every effort in my power to earn my livelihood ? M. Fraysse—Yes, I have often heard him say that to earn his living he would willingly rake up the ground with his hands. M. Rothel, a clerk, knew Alibaud at Strasbourg when he (Rothel) was a soldier, as himself was. He was an ex cellent young man. He saw him again at Paris, and, a short time before the attempt, endeavoured to obtain a place for him. The Procureur-General—Thus, Alibaud, you sought for employment, and your mother even occupied herself about it. Alibaud—l sought for employment to live till I should be able to kill the King.—(Strong sensation.) M. Corbier e , an a d voca t e a t Perpignan, gave an account of his relations with Alibaud, which date from 1835, when when he had the honour of meeting him, for the first time, at the house of a friend.(Sensation.) When the prison er set out for Spain, M. C or bi ere gave hi m a letter in a mys terious style, and seemed to have come from a man that was out of his mind. Alibaud spoke of his distress and his despair, and said that he w ou ld ma k e a tt emp t u p o n the life of an august personage. President—Speak out the whole truth. Witness— Well, he said he would make an attempt upon the life of Philip. Q. You knew clearly that by Philip he meant the King. Why not name him ? Did not Alibaud ask you for money ?—A. Yes, without doubt h e app li e d to me as the f ormer c hi e f o f t h e Committee, charged to distribute the patriotic funds. Q. Alibaud th en th oug ht himself greatly ent i t l e d to the gratitude o f th e patr i ots . Wit ness , y our i nt i macy with Alibaud is very extraordinary. You rendered him service and patronized hi m , an d, t h ere f ore, h a d mo ti ves f or inte resting yourself a b out hi m.—A. I knew not hi ng b ut good him.of Ite settled a disagreeable affair which concerned me, as a father of a family. Q. Did you know that Alibaud went to Barcelona to bring about a republican revolution ?—A. No, I believed that he went there to seek employment, and I hoped that ' General Vigo, whom I knew, might be of service to him. Q. Did Alibaud speak to you about his political pro jects ?—A. Never. He was r e serve d an d h aughty w i th me. President—Corbiere, you have te rr ibl e reproac h es to ma k e against y ourse lf. You received four letters, the writer of which informed you of his projects to assassinate the King, and you did not carry them to the Prefect or the Procu rem. du Roi ! But you would have acted otherwise if there had been anything in them relating to a relation, a friend, _ THE S MONDAY, JULY 11, 1836. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NA TIONAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND. (From the Third Edition of the Dublin Weekly Register of Saturday.) London, 6th July, 1836. Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?" , Fellow Countrymen—l find, by the Dublin papers re ceived this day, that you have already constituted the Asso ciation for Ireland under the name of the " National." I should have preferred, for the present, the name of ",General ;" but, of course, I submit ay own opinion upon matters of detail to yours. I may be permitted to say that I should have desired to reserve the name of " Na tional" for the occasion in which, by the judgment of all reasonable men, Tory injustice and lordly insolence may render it necessary for Ireland to assume once again a national attitude. But there is one point which involves a practical prin ciple of great value, and a legal point of some nicety. I mean the keeping the Association precisely as the Catholic Association was ; perfectly free from any connection or community with any other Society or Union. I deem this matter of the most vital importance, and only beg of you to recollect that the Catholic Association steered its course untouched and unassailed amidst the quicksands and shoals of the law, under my legal guidance. lam not, I trust, presumptuous in expressing a hope that this new Association will pay some attention to my advice ; and that advice most distinctly and emphatically is, not to have any specks of connection with any other body. This, in my mind, is the more necessary, because there a're now other bodies, of great value in themselves, and o f great importance, which may be pressed upon you. I mean in particular the Trades' Union, the Central Committee, and the Parochial Committees, as well as the Registry So ciety. Amongst these the Trades' Union is pre-eminent in 16ngth and number, and magnitude of services, and will, I trust, long continue to prove its undoubted patriotism and utility. But it should continue to move within its own sphere, and in its own orbit, as should all the other bodies I have mentioned. There should not be, and in fact there cannot be, any jealousy or rivalship ; but my most unequivocal opinion is, that the National Association should be totally unconnected with any other body, in order to display na tional utility, which cannot be without perfect freedom of soli-election. I would not dwell upon this topic, but that I look up to the new Association as the best, perhaps the only means of preserving for England, and securing. to Ireland, the peaceful benefits of the Reform Bill. I entertain the strongest expectations of the great and permanent bene fits to be derived from our Association. We must act with firmness, and therefore should act with the greatest prudence—we must act with perseverance, and therefore should neglect no precaution to secure to ourselves perfect free will upon the one hand, and perfect freedom from legal difficulties on the other. In plain truth, we have occasion for all the qualities that make men useful as patriots and good subjects—undisturbed patience, untired exertions, unremitting perseverance, per fect respect for the laws,, but the most energetic and con tinuous determination to use all and every Constitutional means to procure for Ireland, JUSTICE, COMPLETE JUSTICE, EQUAL JUSTICE. This is an arduous struggle, it will be a lengthened strug gle, unless we grapple with the difficulties of our political situation like men who deserve to be free, because they will not indure for one acquiescing moment the brand of slavery or unjust superiority. Let us, then, look our difficulties in the face with a firm and unshrinking eye—we have formidable enemies to en counter—we have formidable enemies to overcome. Let us net disguise from ourselves the number and the strength of our enemies. If the people of Ireland, Protestant, Ca tholic, Presbyterian, and Dissenters, are once deeply con vinced of the foul degradation now cast upon them, and of the . worse mischiefs and horrors contemplated by their ene mies, the result of that conviction will certainly be a peace ful, Constitutional, but truly national uprising of all that is 'virtuous and good in the land—an uprising that' will drive the enemies of Irish liberties into despair, and render our success certain and speedy. Our enemies, however, are many and formidable. There are first the electors of the English counties, who are gene rally a very uninformed and easily misled race—they arc wretchedly dependant, in too many instances, on their Tory landlords. They are also liable to be operated on by the un-Christian cry of "No Popery." The parsons of the Established Church in England Marne the bad passions of the farmers by every species of calumny ; they do not per ceive that they are thus daily undermining their own reli gion, and depriving it of the respect of all considerate men, by making its influence an instrument to increase dissen tion between the various parts of the empire, and of per petuating injustice towards so large a class of his Majesty's subjects. They are, indeed, " unwise men in their own generation"--and instead of making proselytes from the Ca tholics to , Protestantism, they have directly the contrary effect. The farmers, moreover, feel the competition in their own markets of the produce of the Irish agriculturists —and a foolish jealousy induces them' to hate and oppose the Irish. They thus, by countenancing the oppression of Ireland, keep our country in poverty and distress—the foolish men do not perceive, that the greater the poverty of the Irish, the less will they consume of their own agri cultural produce, and the greater will be the quantity of that produce thrown into the English markets, to compete with the English farmers at their own doors. Silly men !—They do not see that the class in England which has the highest and most pressing interest in the prosperity of Ireland are the English farmers—simply be cause if the Irish were prosperous they would easily con sume all, or nearly all their own provisions, and leave the home market of England to the English farmers whose produce must at once in that case rise enormously in price. Next to the farmers our worst enemies arc the English Parsons, and some of the Wesleyan Methodists, not all, by any means—but these two as classes are opposed to the interests of the people of Ireland, upon grounds of bigotry and intolerance, which are impervious to reason and arcru-' ment, and must be left to time and to ridicule, to thin 'the ranks of those opponents, and create amongst them sensa tions of shame, and a sense of Christian charity. The next class of our opponents are the majority of the Peers, instigated by the very worst and most contemptible of our miserable Peerage—the pitiful Vesey Fitzgerald— Lord Glengall, who has earned for himself the soubriquet of " the Shebeen Earl," the Marquis of Westmeath, bless the mark ! ! and others of that species of indescribables. But the Peers have stronger and better reasons to hate Ireland and the Irish ; they know that the Reform Bill could never have been carried but for the zealous, active, and disinterested patriotism of the representatives of the people of Ireland. We turned the scale in favour of Eng lish Reform, and hence arises the bitter and unrelenting hatred of the boroughmongering peerage of England. Besides they actually aim at either repealing or destroy ing the effect of the Reform Bill ; encouraged by so many of the farmers who are slavishly inclined, they would risk the peace of the empire and the safety of the throne rather than allow the current of popular liberty to flow on in its present channel, to sweep away abuses, and cleanse the corruptions by which so many of the British Institutions have beeen too long tainted. The next great obstacle we have to encounter is the Tory faction, headed by Stanley, Peel, and Wellington. We know them well ; we know their conduct when the two latter were in office ; we know that they selected Lord Had dingion as Lord Lieutenant, because his paucity of intel lect and want of fixed principles made him an advisable tool for the oppression of Ireland. We saw the flag inscribed " No Popery," insulting seven-eighths of the people of Ire land, and waving over his head. We saw all the bigots in proportion to their virulence and hatred to the Irish people, Shaw, Lefroy, Jackson, promoted and rewarded. Every measure useful to Ireland has been opposed, stre nously opposed by that party. Were they again to regain power, Ireland would be de luged in blood !—every bitter and exasperating passion would be set loose—faction would be encouraged in the magistracy—the s h r i eva lt y , th e j ury -b ox , i n th Corpora. tions all over the country. Take the bench—almost all, or at least the far greater part of the judges, are entitled to retire on the superannua tion pensions provided by law. Why do not the aged, and almost doating—why does not he who has earned for him self the appellation of " TARLETY RA" retire ? Alas ! ask yourselves this question, and then ask yourselves how many resignations would you have if the Tories were once more in power. _ _ Again look around you, and see who will fill that bench, and what hope there could possibly be of peace or tranquil lity for Ireland, if the Lefroys, the Shaws, the Jacksons, were to be judges of the land ! But this is too frightful a picture to be looked at without something like insanity. Do I exaggerate the intentions of the Tory party ? No --I diminish their intensity and their atrocity. There is the great organ of their party ; that in which they publish their manifestos ; there is their avowed, authorised publication, the Quarterly Review. What plan do they dewelope ? what project do they dissolve ? This, simply this, to pacify Ireland by appointing an officer with the talent and power of Cromwell, to rule Ire land for ten years ! ! There it is ; Cromwell reduced the population by Ibis wars, and the desolation that ensued, near three-fourths. Yes ; the Tory faction devote to destruction full three fourths of the people of Ireland. The monsters cry for blood—more blood—years of blood and massacre. The desolating sword of Cromwell ! Such is the party that me naces Ireland. But it is not menace alone—nor injustice ; it is insult— bitter insult. We have borne, and may still bear, injustice. But INSULT, Irishmen, INSULT ! ! ! They tell us we are UNFIT and UNWORTHY to be trusted; they tell us that the Scotch 'may be trusted, and in this they, are right ; they tell us that the English may be trusted, and in this they arc right ; they tell us that the Irish are not fit to be trusted. Where is the language sufficiently strong for our reply? Miscreants they are, and liars —that is plain. But why waste one moment in words ? We never could find any words sufficiently virulent to express our just indig nation and contempt ; and even if we did, we may easily scorn to use them. Let our actions speak for us—let one universal cry resound throughout Ireland. The Protestant of Dublin is equally entitled with t_he Catholic in Galway and the Presbyterian in Belfast. One cry, then, for all Ireland :—Associate, associate, associate ; Protestant, Ca tholic, Presbyterian, Dissenter—Associate, associate, asso ciate ! Peaceably, legally, constitutionally associate. Every being that writes or calls itself man, let it now associate, or renounce the name of man and the manly character. I never despaired in the worst of times. I know my countrymen too well now to doubt of success. We have with us many and powerful allies, holy allies, not in name, but nature. Ist. We have the revered name of the King with us. Read his opening speech to this Parliament. 2d. We have with us the King's Government, forbid ding us to despair. 3(1. We have with us the Government of Lord Mul grave in Ireland, dispensing all of justice that is within his reach, and bidding us to confide and to hope. 4th. We have with. us the reformed corporations of England, and the intelligent and patriotic inhabitants of the great towns and cities. sth. We have with us the wealth, intellectual power, pa triotism, and energy of this great metropolis. The Corpo ration of London and the inhabitants of Westminster, Southwark, Lambeth, Finsbury, the Tower Hamlets, and Marylebone, with all their representatives, save one, are strenuously, actively, our friends. Gth. The intelligent, patriotic, brave, and ever-uncon quered people of Scotland are with us. 7th. The House of Commons, with a daily-increasing majority, are with us—a majority of about one-sixth of the entire representatives of the people are with us. Compare the state of affairs when the Catholic Associa tion was formed with your present prospects, and see how glorious and unerring is the hope of success—if, Irishmen -IF YOU ARE TRUE TO YOURSELVES. " Hereditary bondsmen, know you not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?" When the Catholic Association was formed, the people of England were nearly all adverse or careless of us. The people of Scotland were then powerless, and, there fore, inattentive. They could not have served us if they would, and at that time many of them (for they did not know what true hearts Ireland contained) would not assist us if they could. 'The House of Commons presented a nominal, but un certain and wavering, majority in our favour. The House of Lords, almost to a man, rejected our approaches with haughty disdain. But in Ireland itself, what was our foundation of hope? The Catholic people were apathetic or in despair. The Catholic Nobility was unfriendly or indifferent. The Ca tholic clergy, especially of the higher orders, were sus picious, if not more. The second order of the clergy were unroused, and but little interested. 'The best of the Pro testants showed symptoms of disgust or disapprobation, and the formidable and organized force of Orangeism took the field at once against us, not figuratively, but in down right earnest. Yet with all these difficulties, with obstacles apparently insurmountable, we succeeded. Irishmen ! we succeeded!! we were true to ourselves, and we succeeded ! The Catholic clergy soon did justice to our views ; the Catholic nobility joined us : the Liberal Protestants thronged around us. Fourteen humane Protestant names adorned . and dignified the roll of the Catholic Association. But why should I enter into details already familiar? We were true to ourselves, and, therefore, we succeeded. Mark, I pray you, how we succeeded, without a crime or an offence—without a sin or a stain—without injustice to any man to the extent of one shilling—without, blessed be God! one single drop of blood. Whatever was done once can be done again. Irishmen —Protestants, Catholics, Presbyterians, Dissenters—rally —rally for Ireland and liberty. Always remember our three great objects-Ist, to pre serve and support the King's Government—Lord Mel bourne in England, Lord Mulgrave, honoured name, in Ireland. 2nd—To preserve as far as we can, peace, good order, freedom from agrarian disturbances, and from crime of every description, inviolation of the law, no breach of mo rality. To procure a satisfactory settlement of the tithe ques tion—a satisfactory, because a full participation with Scot land and England in municipal reform. Let our Association be single and independent of any other, respecting all unions and societies that struggle in any way in the same sacred cause, but amalgamating with none of them. Let our Association be felt and under stood all over Ireland. Place it upon the basis of the " Justice Rent for Ire land." That I may practise as well as preach, I send my 6' Justice Rent for Ireland," for myself, my family, and descendants for the year 1836. Meet weekly ; digest in committees every point upon which honest inen may differ. Let every man be disposed to yield to others equally honest with himself every thing but principle. Harmony, union, exertion, perpetual, unre mitting exertion. I subjoin a list of those for whom I subscribe. I will be in Dublin . so soon as the cause of the soreness of my heart will permit ; perhaps there are those in Ireland who will offer up a fervent prayer to God, to remove, in hi mercy, the cause of that soreness and sorrow. I have the honour to be, Your devoted servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. " JUSTICE RENT FOR IRELAND"-FOR 1836. Daniel O'Connell, M. P. £s 0 0 Mrs. O'Connell Maurice O'Connell, M. P. ......... 2 0 0 Mrs. M. O'Connell 1 0 0 Fanny O'Connell _ _ Mar; O'Connell Christopher Fitzsimon, M. I) 2 0 0 Mrs. Fitzsimon Mary O'Connell Fitzsimon 1 0 0 Daniel O'Connell Fitzsimon Christopher O'Connell Fitzsimon.. 1 0 0 Thomas O'Connell Fitzsimon 1 0 0 Henry O'Connell Fitzsimon Charles O'Connell Mrs. O'Connell Mary O'Connell Teresa O'Connell Kate O'Connell N. J. French .. Mrs. French 1 0 0 Daniel O'Connell French Harriet O'Connell French 1 0 0 Mary O'Connell French 1 0 0 Morgan O'Connell, M. P. ... 2 0 0 John O'Connell, M. P. Daniel O'Connell, jun. In all thirty-eight pounds. TITHES. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) TITHE CAMPAIGN IN THE COUIVTY MEATH. The cattle of George Thunder, Esq., of Caucestown, county Meath, were seized under an execution for tithe due to the Rev. Henry Fitzgerald, Rector of Castle Town, Delvin, on Monday last, and Wednesday being the day appointed for the sale, the following gentlemen and neigh bouring farmers of the county attended in the town of Athboy for that purpose. Joseph Browne, of Elm Grove, Esq., Patrick Barnewall, of Greenanstown, Esq., Charles and Richard Barnewall, of Meadstown, Esqs., Richard Conolly, of Ballenlough, Esq., George Burfierd, of Drog heda, Esq., Doctors Burke and Wood, of Athboy, Michael ThundCr, of Lagure, Esq., John Thunder, of Rutland square, Dublin, Esq., Mr. Michael Hope, of Balluwally, Mr. John Brady, of Castletown, Mr. Denis Hagerty, of Gravelstotvn, Mr. J. O'Rielly, of Clonmellon, Mr. Mo naghan, of Coxtown, Mr. W. Cooney, of Galties, and the Messrs. Nugent, of Clonmorral, besides several others. At the hour of one o'clock, four bullocks being the cattle under seizure, were driven into the town, accompanied by a considerable number of the neighbouring peasantry, and on their way were branded by them with the odious word tithe. The Sub-sheriff waited after the hour for an auc tioneer, having applied to several to act as such, but there was no one found willing to undertake the " dirty work ;" and, indeed, it is not to be wondered at, as we presume the person so doing would, besides rendering himself ob noxious to the people, get very little other business. He was accordingly obliged to set the cattle up himself, when no bidders appearing, they were driven through the town amidst the cheers of the people. The crowd immediately dispersed, and not a drop of whiskey was drank on the occasion. Upwards of '2OO police attended from the neighbouring stations of Trim Rathmolion, Kells, and Na van, and were stationed not only outside the torn, but in the very wards used by their chief, Captain Despard. They had nothing to do but, like the King of France, " March up the hill and straight march down again. A few days previous, a feeble old widow. aged 76 years, was arrested in the town of Navan for 21. 10s., tithe! The people of Ireland are alive, and Ireland expects tkat every man will do his duty. Every tithe sale should be well attended by the people, and no one should be allowed to go to gaol without a good escort. Again we say, Ireland expects that every man will do his duty. Among some of the tribes of Southern Africa, when the King sneezes, the bystanders ePittim, " May he grow greater I" N, _ILA or even a slight acquaintance ?—A. I should not have otherwise ; because I did not believe that Alibaud would do what he said ; I looked upon him as mad. It was not worth while to compromise him by an information, which I considered to be quite inopportune. The witnesses called on behalf of the prisoner were then heard. M. Brunelle declared that he was a friend of Alibaud's ; that he had known him in the 15th light infantry ; that he was an honest man and a good soldier. M. Armant Fraysse, silk manufacturer, had been shop man with Alibaud in a commercial house. Alibaud en tered the army, and he had then lost sight of him. About six months ago he had again met with him at Paris, and got him a place with a merchant ; he had always conducted himself with honour and probity. He knew as a fact that Alibaud had once thrown himself into the water to save the life of a child. Several other witnesses also gave the prisoner a good character for morality and quiet behaviour. The Court rose at half , past five, and adjourned till next day at 10. COURT OF PEERS-SATußvir. At a quarter to eleven o'clock, Alibaud was brought in from tte prison of the Luxembourg by an escort of six municipal guards, among whom he took his seat as yester day. He appeared as composed as on the preceding day. On reaching the dock, he opened a large bundle of papers, and extracted from it a MS., which he appeared to read very attentively. Shortly after one of his advocates entered the hall, and Alibaud engaged in conversation with him until the Court was announced. It was then 11 o'clock. Alibaud rose with the remainder of the assembly in respect for his judges, and looked at them filing before him with the utmost sang froid and visible carelessness. The appeal being concluded, the President observed that all the witnesses having been heard on the preceding day, it now remained with the Attorney-General to present his rcquisitory. M. Martin Du Mond accordingly rose and said that he might abstain from adducing further proofs of the guilt of the prisoner, his avowal being sufficient for his conviction. M. Martin then blamed the conduct of M. Corbiere in the affair. He regretted that the legislation did not allow him to order the arrest and prosecution of that witness for not revealing Alibaud's intention to the Magistrates ; but• he hoped the severe admonition of the President would be a sufficient warning, and racal him to better sentiments. M. M. then endeavoured to fasten on the factions, as well as on the miserable condition of the regicide, the crime he had per petrated. " But," said he, " they never will succeed in overturning the present order of things, nor the dynasty we have raised to the throne, protected as it is by the love of every Frenchman."• M. Ledru said. that when he was chosen by the Presi dent of the Court for that difficult task, he had at first hesitated, but, having at last accepted, he resolved to do his duty to the fullest extent. When he repaired to Alibaud's cell he found him calm and reading over the bill of indict ment. Alibaud greeted him, and told him that he was guilty and could not be defended : " But," said he, " my head alone will not suffice for my prosecutors ; 'they have pryed into try whole life ; they must have my honour and that of my family ; it is that and that alone you must de fend." M. Ledru then read a note Alibaud had drawn out for his defence, &c. He was born of poor but honest parents. One of his uncles had received a sword of honour in the armies of the Republic—the Star of the Brave had been placed on his breast by Napoleon, by whom he had been appointed Commander of Cavalry, So much for the illustration of his family. His father was a carman, but having been robbed on the road of some valuable articles confided to, his care, he was imprisoned by the rich individuals to whom they belonged, and being obliged to sell all he pos sessed to satisfy them he was completely ruined. 'When lie recovered his liberty, he established a small coach between Nismes and Narbonne, but soon after some rich capitalists ran . another in opposition to his, and 'tie was again destroyed. He then set up a small inn which he has kept ever sioce. M. Ledru here related a number of facts creditable to Ali baud. On two occasions, he had saved, once a young girl, and the other time a fellow soldier, who were on the point of drowning. In Strasbourg he defended alone three of his comrades assailed by a crowd of people, by whom they were nigh being killed. His act was culpable in a military point of view, and he was accordingly removed from the compagnic d'clite in which he was placed, into a flank com pany. In July, 1830, he left his regiment not to fire on the people, but he did not either fight against his comrades. He prevailed on his bed companion to quit his regiment for the same motive, and the wound he received, in the three days, was while standing behind a barricade as an ama t eur . At 22 he began to "study Spanish, and acquired that lan guage in a few months. Full of the glory of Napoleon, whose history he delighted in reading, he dreamt of nothing !eat battles, and Spain being then a field opened to his pas sion, he proceeded to Barcelona, to aid in overturning the Queen's Government and proclaim the republic. He then the apology of the regicide in Cicero and Tacitus, -0-.ose works were at an early age placed in his hands, and .ulogized by his masters ; and concluded by an appeal in favour to the clemency of the Court. Alibaud afterwards rose and read, in a firm voice, his de ,lice, which went particularly to clear his honour. He "ndemned, in energetic terms, the cond uc t o f th e At- .rney-General, who had, he said, debased himself by the v:lc manner in which he had conducted the prosecution ainst him. . He then represented that the King had vio -ted all his oaths and promises, that he was a tyrant, that : people had a right to put him nut of the way. He Alibaud) had acted as Brutus had done under similar cir- . innstances. The murderers of Kings, he exclaimed, alone ere held up to execration, and handed over to justice, ,vhile the Attorney-General had not a single word of in dignation to denounce the murderers of the people. Ali baud then went on to justify the doctrine of regicides, which he maintained was a right invested in the people. The President, however, findine , he was going on too far, ordered: him to sit down, and refused to allow bim to pro ceed with his defence. In vain did the prisoner insist on continuing, he was taken by two of the municipal guards and forced to sit down. He anew protested against the violence offered him, and handing his manuscript to his Counsel, he said : " I confide you this document." The President - ordered it to be put into the hands of the officers of the Court. M. Ledru, after some hesitation, gave it to M. Sajou, who brought•it to the Recorder. M. Boujour, the second Counsel of Alibaud, rose and recommended his client to the humanity of the Court, which Alibaud disclaimed with indignation. The President asked Alibaud if he had anything to add to his defence ? The prisoner begged to be allowed to continue his MS. The President said that if he abstained from the expres sion of regicide sentiments, he might go on with his defence. The paper was then placed into the prisoner's hand, who, skipping over a few leaves, commenced reading anew. No sooner, however, had he read a few lines, in which he as cribed to the King all the sufferings of the people, and con tended that it was a praiseworthy act to drain their source by destroying their author, than the President interrupted him, and ordered him to sit down. As he was paying no attention to the President's injunctigin, but was proceeding with his MS., two municipal guards seized and compelled him to obey. The President then announced that the public debates were closed, and that the Court would retire into the coun cil room to deliberate. He next ordered the accused to be conveyed back to prison. Two soldiers took him under the arms and took him off. On his way to the door, Alibeaud shook hands with a young lady and several other persons seated in the pas sage. He walked with a firm pace, and betrayed no symp tom of emotion. As soon as the prisoner had been removed, the Court rose, and at a quarter to one retired into the council-room. At two o'clock the Court.returned, and the President, in the absence of the prisoner, proceeded to read the sen tence. Louis Alibeaud was found guilty of having com mitted an attempt against the King's life, on the 25th of June last, and for that crime was condemned to the punish ment of parricides. He is to walk to the scaffold bare footed, in his shirt, his head covered with a black veil, and the sentence is to be read to him on reaching the place of execution, in presence of the people. He was, moreover, condemned to pay the costs of the trial ! and to be executed as soon as the Attorney-General shall think proper. Such is the competition between the proprietors of coaches running between Huddersfield and Manchester, that they have issued the following announcement:—" Outside, what you please inside, ditto I" THE VALE OF OVOCA.—" Of all the rivers of Ireland, the lAvonmore, in Wicklow has a course the most di versified and the most picturesqoe. Traversing the eastern declivity of the great granite group of Thonelagee and Lugna quilla, it opens on scenes of perpet ua l nove lty an d b eau ty, as i t turns in succession the extremitie s o f th ose numerous l a t era l ranges and their intervening g l ens , w hi c h b ranc h o ff f rom t hi s side of the main mountain-ridge. From each of these lateral valleys descends a feeder which almost invariably enters the head of its own glen by a cascade. Glenmacanass, Glenana fane, Glendaloch, and Glenmalure, in this manner, send down their several tributaries (the last the Avenbeg) through scenery of great and various interest, until the Avonmore, now a con siderable river, issues from between the wooded sides of Cro ghan Mora and Cronebawn, to mingle its waters with the more peaceful tide of the Daragh, in the midst of the vale of Ovoca, than which no imagination can conceive a sweeter valley. It is in the wonderful variety of its course that the great charm of the river consists. Luggelaw at his source is a scene of sweet and dignified grandeur ; for notwithstanding its comparatively unimposing proportions, it has all the grander features of black waters, gray cliffs, and hanging woods, on a sufficient scale to justify the epithet, qualified , as it is by the undisputed sweetness of its embosomed lawn and cottage."— Dublin University Magazine. O. THE LATE THUNDER-STORMS. On Tuesday evening we were visited by a heavy and long protracted thunder-storm, the first of any conseque,ace that has occurred here this summer. We have seldom seen the light-. ning so magnificently awful, or heard the thunder rr,ore ter ribly loud. Flash and peal followed each other in abcut half:- minute succession for nearly an hour, during which time a drenching rain fell, and completely flooded the Cowgat t, and other low-lying streets in the town. The darkness so great at seven o'clock, that no work could be done without the aid of candles or gas-light. The storm somewhat abet 'd about eight, but only for a few minutes, for another sombre mass of clouds approached from the west, and the blaze of the lightning and roll of the thunder became as alarming as ever, continuing almost without intermission till nine o'clock, and accompanied by another deluge of rain. A remarkable feature of the lightaing was, that it appeared of a bright purple co lour, and almost every flash was centered by some fantastic formation of intensely white light, which changed form re peatedly in the twinkling of an eye, and rendered the spectacle at once beautiful and fearfully appalling. We noticed one tremendous flash with a bright pole right through its centre, terminated at each end by a large globe of amazing brilliancy. On another occasion a ball of fire shot beyond the radii of the flash from which it emanated, and instantly dissolved itl sparks. —Edinburgh Paper. On Tuesday evening last, a storm, which for its violence, and long continu ance , - has not been equalled, perhaps, within the memory of man, burst over this city and neighbourhood. The day had been intensely hot ; and at about eight o'clonl: in the evening, that part of the horizon in which the sun had set, presented a gorgeous appearance, which it would be im-. possible for language to describe. For the space of about three quarters of an hour 'from the time we have named, the lightning played incessantly, in the most fantastic shapes, on the field of effulgent gold which the west presented to the view. Shortly before nine o'clock, however, the beauty of the scene was changed to one calculated to inspire horror. The first note of the approaching elemental war was given by clouds of dust, which impelled as by a whirlwind, almost ob scured the air. The rain then began to descend in torrents, that caused the canals which run through every part of the city to overflow, and in some places to render the streets impassable. Meanwhile broad sheets of the electric fluid mo mentarily illumined the atmosphere, and then left it in a state of pitchy darkness. Shortly after, hail was mingled with the rain, and came down in such size and force as to cut off the corn as effectually as if the sickle had been used, and also doing immense damage to the glazed portions of buildings. In this manner, the storm raged until about an hour after mid night, when it subsided, and left the temperature of the atmos phere of about equal coolness with that which usually prevails in March or the beginning of April. On Tuesday last this place was visited by a thunder storm, which began about five o'clock in the afternoon, and continued till eleven o'clock at night. The flashes of lightning were very vivid, and the thunder rolled almost without intermission. At about nine o'clock the storm was at its height, and nothing could exceed in sublimity the scene which was then exhibited. The copious showers which fell during the continuance of then storm were, with the exception of the torrents which occasion ally succeeded peals of thunder more than usually loud, as gentle as could be wished. The Tweed was the next day swollen to full tide. In Jedburgh, about snven o'clock in the evening, a house in Burnwynd-street was struck by a bolt. At Kirkwhelpington, says the Newcastle Courant, the storm was awful for many hours ; about three o'clock, the thunder and lightning became for some time incessant. A poor woman was struck with the lightning at Nattrass, near Alston, while sitting in her house, which set her clothes on fire, and befor e she was discovered they were nearly burnt off, and she is now lying in a dreadful condition. A watch, which was banging upon a shelf in the same room, was melted from the nail upon which it hung. At Brampton, and the surrounding district, the thunder was accompanied with one of the severest showers. of hail ever remembered ; and. scarcely a window facing the south has escaped without having panes of glass broken. It is. computed that upwards of 500 squares were broken in the vinery at Springwell-house, near Gretna.—Berwick Ad vertiser. WEYMOUTH, JULY 9.—The devastating effects of the violent and unprecedented storms of Monday and Tuesday last have been very extensive in this neighbourhood. The line of pro gress taken by the storms was from the vvcsti to the eastward. The thunder, lightning, and hail, on the second day, were terrific. Several fire-balls were observed to fall in different parts of the town and in the flay : on the surface of the latter the effect was at times highly grmad and awful.— Winchester Journal. AYR.—Monday was one of the hottest days we have expa rienced this summer; and on Tuesday morning a violent and protracted storm of thunder and rain, accompanied with high. wind, commenced to the southward of Ayr about 7 o'clock_ Around May bole the storm raged with great fury, and we re gret to say aroved fatal to a young man in that vicinity. The deceased was about 21 years of Age.—Observer. Loss or LIFE.-This neighbourhood was visited yester day (Tuesday) with one of the most dreadful storms of thun der and lightning, accompanied with a perfect deluge of rain, which has occurred since the memorable catastrophe at Lock_ erbie Lamb Fair some forty years ago. A young man, twenty three years of Age, named Richardson, a carter by occupation, was employed in conveying wood from Conheath to Glencaple, and while sitting upon his cart at the latter place, the electric fluid in an instant deprived both the horac and its master of life. Over a wide district of country the most serious da mage has been inflicted—cattle killed, and the soil exten sively washed off potato and turnip land. In .the parish of Ironray, the visitation has been peculiarly disash ous. The strom was at its height about 7 a.m. ; the rain fell in. torrents, and in twenty minutes the old water of Clouden rose to A height never known to the oldest inhabitants—the river bucst the banks, and careered down the holms, carrying every thing before it.—Dumfries Courier. The state of the weather since Saturday has been vel - v variable in this neighbourhood. Monday was one of the finest and warmest days this season. Tuesday morning, from 4to 8 o'clock, we were visited with a severe thunder storm ; the: lightning was unusually brilliant, and the peals of thunder loud and long. The storm is said to have been more severe at Paisley than in this city.—Glasgow Courier. BRAMPTON.-The storm was experienced at Brampton and its neighbourhood within an irregular circuit of about a couple of miles, in great severity and with additional pheno mena of a peculiar and remarkable character. The storm: commenced there a little before one o'clock, and had con tinued with great violence and little intermission during the greater part of the afternoon, the rain falling in torrents, and the peels of thunder and flashes of lightning succeeding each other with extreme rapidity, the whole rendered still more striking by the unusual darkness which prevailed, when about five o'clock a shower of hailstones fell, such, perhaps, as has seldom been equalled in this part of the country. The hail stones were, of an extraordinary magnitude, most of them being as large as a pigeon's egg, others much exceeding that. Scarcely a house in the town, having windows in the direction from which the shower carne, can boast of having altogether escaped injury.—Carlisle Journal. MR. O'CONNELL.—The ladies of Bungay, many of whom were personally introduced to that gentleman, and s heard the speeches delivered by him on the occasion of his late visit to the town, have devised a neat and appropriate method of expressing the admiration he excited. They have caused a new and splendid shawl, of the finest fabric, to be manufactured in Norwich, by Mr. Blakely, shawl manufacturer to the Queen, and it was forwarded last week by a trusty baud for presentation to Mrs. O'Connell. That lady is, however,, in such a state of health, that it is impossible to present it per sonally, and the shawl has been committed to the keeping of hlr. O'Connell. This offering, from such a quarter, is a happy testimony to the purity and delicacy which, amidst all the excitement of political harangues, characterised the speeches of the Hon. Gentleman in Bungay. They were in his happiest and most effective style--vehement and im passioned, with appropriate admixture of mirthful irony, but not an idea or a word found a place which was not calculated to improve the heart, enlighten the understanding, and do homage to the feelings of every hearer in his presence. THE NEW NOVEL " MRS. ARMYTAGE, or FE MALE DOMINATION, is now published." The Literary Gazette observes, that " This story is new and full of interest. Mrs. Gore is certainly one of the most brilliant painters of manners in the present day. Keen, sarcastic, and gifted with singular happiness of epithet, her comedy passes rapidly before the reader. All is actual, searching, and sparkling. The wit of , her pages belongs to the best school of French Memoirs; it is lively and pointed. Who would not anticipate the popula rity of Female Domination?" TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS. — The Chan cellor of the Exchequer is about to introduce a Bill to conso lidate and amend the laws relating to the conveyance of news- ' papers by post. We understand that the following will be among the principal enactments of a measure of reform calcu lated to increase the claims of that distinguished statesman , upon the gratitude of his country :—All newspapers sent through the General Post, and delivered by the penny or two penny post, and vice versa, are to be free. Newspapers and may b sen e at the like sent • by the twopenny post areonlytop pay one pen sent within post-townsrate. Newspapers sent from the United Kingdom by packets, and vice versa, are to go free. Newspapers may be sent f rom one co l ony to another, vial the United Kingdom, by packet-boat, free of postage. Newspapers sent from the United Kingdom to the co l on i es by private ships to pay Id., and vice versa. Newspapers to or from foreign countries to pay 2d. ; provided that, in case a satisfactory proof is given that any foreign State receives or sends newspapers to or from the United Kingdom free of duty, then no duty is to be charged on news. papers to or from such State, if by packet-boat ; but if by any other vessel they are to pay Id. postage. Newspapers to be put into the Post.office within seven days after date if going out of the United Kingdom. —Observe* There is said to be a greater abundance of fish in the Tham es , a b ove b r id ge, this year, than has been known for many seasons. We regret to hear that an accident, which in its results might have proved most serious, happened a few days ago to Sir Henry Parnell, whilst riding on horseback in the Portland-road. It appears that a horse which had run away with its rider, dashed at full speed out of the Nevr.road, near Trinity Church, and came so suddenly upon Sir Henry Par nell that he had not an instant's time for consideration. The result was, that the animal, which had run away, came in vio lent contact with the head of the horse upon which Sir Henry was mounted, and threw it back upon its haunches with so violent a concussion, that Sir Henry experienced a severe fall tipon the Irek, providently, howrver. .xithont s:!rion, in jury ; had he been advanced one yard further, nothing appa rently could have saved him from a very serious accident ; as it is, we have learned with sincere gratification that Sir Henry is rapidly recovering from the effects of the fall.